Sick kitten and dead mother dumped in garbage bag
A kitten has had a shocking but miraculous start to life.
Just two weeks old, the kitten was found alive last night in a plastic bag filled with other dead kittens and their mother.
His rescuer, Mario Zuvela, was visiting a friend in Ascot vale when he noticed a distinctive sound coming from a garbage bag dumped on a roadside.
When Mario opened the bag, he was horrified.
"All I could see was a big black cat and it looked like it had been ripped open," he told Seven News.
"There was another two little baby black cats. There was a tabby one, he was still moving, and I said 'I've got to give him a fighting chance'."
Mario nursed the sick kitten overnight and took him to the Lort Smith Animal Hospital this morning, where he was fed and cleaned.
The centre's manager, Serena Horg, said: "It sounds like he was thrown from a balcony or thrown down some stairs. I can't believe anyone would do that.
"He was dehydrated, he was also riddled in fleas, but apart from that, he was pain free. Miraculously, he survived."
Today, Mario was reunited with the kitten he has fondly named Houso.
Houso will continue to receive care at the rescue centre until he is ten weeks old.
He will then be de-sexed, micro-chipped, vaccinated and made available for adoption.
"I don't think he would have survived much longer if Mario hadn't found him," Ms Horg said.
The RSPCA went to the scene today and is now investigating the incident.
